Crimea: Senseless conflict, large death toll…and can we blame it for lung cancer too?

Crimean War signifies the end of the “Concert of Europe” and the monarchs club

It illustrates the growth of Nationalism

It shows the power of industrial technology in war

How did Crimea start? (Think political Mean Girls)

Big picture:Balance of power! Countries want more power!Some countries backstab other countries to win power for themselves!

Little picture: on my website 1. In line with the newly popular nationalist ideas - France wants

to break free from the containment of the Congress of Vienna2. Russia wants territory in Ottoman Empire (sick man of Europe)3. Napoleon encourages Tsar Nicholas to be more aggressive

(thought it would be good for France if others were embroiled in a war) – so Russia attacks ports in the Ottoman Empire

4. France convinces Austria to be neutral and disrupts Austria/Russia alliance. Austria doesn’t want Russia to expand into the Balkans – THEIR territory

5. Britain doesn’t want their naval routes to East Asia disrupted and supports the Ottomans.

6. France and Britain band together to attack Russia

Impacts

7. Nationalistic propaganda rallies the British behind the cause.

8. Fighting in the Crimea is devastating. More than a million die of disease and starvation.

9. War only ends when a devastated Russia vies for peace.10. War shows Russia needs to be modernized.11. War shows Nationalism is a more powerful tool for conservatives than the Congress of Vienna “monarchs club”

Use the cartoons to better understand how countries used war to promote Nationalism (in this case England)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB0lZZWArYc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuhec_llrGw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43PpM6hTbG0

• How is the clip from the “Charge of the Light Brigade” symbolic of feelings of nationalism?

• How does war strengthen nationalism?